Module 6: Planning for Student Success

• Explore strategies to differentiate instruction
• Create an assessment to encourage student self-direction
• Create student support materials
• Revise your Unit Plan to incorporate accommodations for all learners
• Reflect on learning in our group Blog
• Self-assess your facilitation of a student-centered classroom

• Explain how the student sample, assessment, learning objectives and outcomes align with each other
• Review and give feedback to your group members
  • Use the Portfolio Rubric in the CD/Assessments folder (also in the Appendix on p. A.05) as a guide.
• Note ideas for modifying your student sample and assessment

• Group Discussion
  • In groups of 3
  • Each member of the group reads and reports on a different framework for understanding learning styles
    • Visual-auditory-kinesthetic
    • Left brain/right brain
    • Multiple intelligences
  • Go to http://www.intel.com/education/DesignProjects. Click Thinking Skills, click Thinking Frameworks, click Learning Styles
  • After each member reports, discuss how these different ways of looking at learning styles could have an impact on your unit.
• Complete Step 2 on p. 6.04.
  • Review the materials in the CD/Differentiation folder for accommodating the needs of all learners
  • Note how you might include some of those strategies in your unit
  • Open your Unit Plan
  • Write a draft of the strategies you will use in the Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction section

• Read about the role of Formative Assessment in supporting self-direction (p.6.05)
• Open the Assessing Projects resource at http://www.intel.com/education/AssessingProjects.
  • Click Overview and Benefits
  • Click Formative Assessments
  • Review one of the case studies
  • Note the assessments that you find in the case study
  • Share comments with a partner on what the case study you reviewed

• Create an assessment that helps students take more control of their learning; i.e., self-direction, self-management, self-assessment, or reflection.
• Select one of the 3 options listed on p. 6.06 and create your assessment. There are step-by-step directions for the options on pp. 6.06-6.07.

• Read the information on p. 6.08-6.09.
• Group Discussion:
  • Share tools and strategies you can use to support student learning in your unit.
  • A reporter for the group responds to the discussion prompt for Module 6: Pedagogical Practice in the Engage Community group.

• Review the information on p. 6.10
• Review example templates, forms, and documents in the CD/Student Support folder
• Which templates, forms, forms, or other documents might you use in your unit to support student learning.
• Review the information on p. 6.11 and consider ways that you might integrate math in your unit to improve students' thinking skills

• Choose one of the 4 options to create a resource that students will use to support their learning during your unit
• Refer to the associated page(s) for each option for assistance
• Save your resource in the unit_support folder of your Portfolio folder

• Review your Unit Plan using the Unit Plan Checklist
• Revise the Assessment Plan section to include additional assessments to encourage student self-direction
• Modify the Instructional Procedures section to include how you are planning to use the student support materials you created, and implement any differentiation strategies you described
• Revise your Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction section

• Go to the Engage Community group blog and respond to the Module 6 Reflection prompt by clicking on <Comment>.